Re: why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Tom Tromey wrote: Harald Please see subject. Of course I would agree that this Harald dependency is usually a good thing, but sometimes it might Harald be helpfull to do a 'make install' for another prefix e.g. Harald in your

Re: why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: If 'make install' does not depend on all, then it may misbehave since necessary dependencies may not be built. Regardless of unexpected side-effects (to the user), it is the technically correct thing to do. you're confusing expected (conventional)

Re: why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: but that doesn't make much sense. still no: there are people who really do _not_ want make install to create new files (because that's the way they want to do installs). When they see it doing that, it's a bug. You're welcome to produce code the

Re: why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: but that doesn't make much sense. still no: there are people who really do _not_ want make install to create new files (because that's the way they want to do installs). When they see it doing that, it's

Re: why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-10 Thread Tom Tromey
Harald == Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harald Please see subject. Of course I would agree that this Harald dependency is usually a good thing, but sometimes it might Harald be helpfull to do a 'make install' for another prefix e.g. Harald in your stow directory without verifying all

why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-08 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Please see subject. Of course I would agree that this dependency is usually a good thing, but sometimes it might be helpfull to do a 'make install' for another prefix e.g. in your stow directory without verifying all the dependencies again. It would be easy to split the old install